Baking oven



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Patented Sept. 22,1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- ROBERT ELMER BAKER, or RRONXVILLE, AND LAURENCE SEYMOUR HARRER, OE KA- TONAH, NEW YORK, AssrGNORs fro JosErHz BAKER, soNs a PERKINS COMPANY, INO., OF ,WHITE PLA1Ns;.NEW YORK, A CORPORATION Or NEW YORK.

BAKING- OVEN.

To all whom z'tmafl/ concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT ELMER BAKER and. LAURENCE SEYMOUR HARBER. both subjects oi the King` of Great Britain7 and residents, respectively, of Bronxville and of Katonah, both in the county of Westchester and State of New York, haveinvented cer,- tain new and useful Improvements in Baking Ovens, of ywhich the following is a specification. y y

This invention relates to an improved oven for bakeries which is so constructed as to combine, in one structure, a sO-called peelv oven for baking bread whilethe loaves are stationary` and al traveling plate joven throughthe loaves are carried with a continuous motion while supportedy on a conveyor having plates on which the loaves, or rather the molds or other'receptacles con taining the loaves, aredeposited at one end of the Oven, and from which they are removed atk the o therl end.

Without desiringto restrict ourselves to the details illustrated, ,we will now describe the preferred and satisfactory form of our invention shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig 1 is a side elevation of the combinedpeel and traveling plate oven; Fig. 2 is an approximately horizontal section through parts of said oven, suhst an tially on the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1: and Fig.V 3 is a vertical cross section on line 3 3 ofFigs. 1 and 2. 4

The particular embodiment', illustrated comprises a peel oven with two stationary hearths. and a traveling pla-te oven the upper and lower runs fof whose conveyor extend above and below said hearths respectively. The body of the loven is indicated at 10. and the two stationary hearths at,11, these hearths or stationary bakingr chambers having f ioors 1,1' andl roofs 11f (Fig. 3), and being also 'provided at one side, as shown. with a throat 12 which isboth contracted or tapered (Fig. 2) and inclined downwardly (Fig, 3) towards its outer end. which is normally closed by a door 13, which has a counterweight 14 tol keepy it either the open orthe closed position. at one side of each of the .bakingI chambers 11, we have also indicated a box or casing containing an i Application filed ,September 16, 1920. Serial No. 410,713.

electric bulb 15, yfor illuminating the`finterior of the vchamber 11 through an appropriate window. `We wish it to be understood that any well-known or approved construction may be adopted for the several parts of the combined oven, our invention residing rather in the relative arrangementof said parts than in their individual construction. Longltudinally of the oven body 10, two chambers or passages are arranged therein to receive the traveling plate conveyor, said passages being preferably'of about the same widthas the hearths orW stationary baking `chambers 11, which latter are shown as lovcated at the same level, while the upper longitudinal passage Y16 extends above said `hearths,'and,the, lower longitudinal passage 17 is disposed beneath the stationary baking chambers 11. The lower passage rserves for the return of the conveyor. Theupper longitudmal passage, whichv forms the chamb er in which the loaves carried 'by the upper run of the conveyor are baked, is of peculi ar ,construction in that its central, preferably horizontal portion1 is so arranged relatively to its downwardly inclined end portions l that the level ot the floor of said central, portion will bcabove' the level of the rjoo'l ot said passage at `the lower ends of the lsaid -inclined portions, said lower roof level being indicated at t 1n Fig. 1. The con-y ,veyor itself may be of any suitable type, although we prefer to employ the particular construction invented by us and Jforming the subject-matter ofA anotherapplication for a patent filed in the United* States Patent Oiice on March 28, 1921, Serial No. 456,099.

:The drawing indicates at 18 tracks located in the passages -16, `17 at each. side, near the floonand a conveyor having chains 19 at opposite sides withirollers 20 adapted to run on saidtracks, r and with plates 21 connecting the two chains and adapted to support the boxes or other receptacles 22 containing the loaves.v The conveyor chains 19 pass over suitable supporting'wheels 23, 24, at least one set of which, as 28 is Journaled in ybearingsadjustable lengthwise, as indicated at v25, for the ,purpose Of giving the conveyor chainsfth'e Yproper tension. Ar continuous traveling motion may be imparted to the l conveyor in any suitable manner,

say by means of drive mechanism 26 connected with the set of wheels 2d. The wheels 23, 24- are illustrated ascontained in housings 27, 28 respectively at the ends of the bodyl 1f). Partly within the housing 27 at the inlet end of the chamber l6, and partly projecting in advance or" said housing is a stationary plate 29 the width of which is practically equal to thatof the conveyor, said plate being inclined upwardly and inwardly, and having its inner end close to the inclined entrance run ofv the conveyor in the chamber 16, so as to deliver thereto the receptacles 22 whichl anattendant pushes upwardly along said plate until they are caught by the conveyor.. At the delivery end of the ovenis located` another plate 30, likewise inclined upwardly and inwardly, the upper end of said plate being close to the conveyor,.so tha-t the receptacles 22 will pass automatically from the conveyor to said plate 30, to be removed by an attendant. Preferably, the plate 30 has a transverse stop 30 at its lower end. rFhe escape of' hot air from. the baking passage 16 is prevented largely by the Jfact that the lowermost points of its roof, as indica-ted? by the levela, are below the level of the floor of t-he mai-n or central portion of the said passage 16, so that the air in said central portion is trapped, as it were. As a further means for minimizing' the escape of such air, we have shown a swinging flap or door 31, pivoted about a transverse axis 31 and ad-aptcdto engage the receptacles 22, yet yielding eutwardly to allow them to pass out oi the baking chamber 16. Adjacent to the baking passage 16, wel have shown openings 32, with windows 32', of glass or other transparent material, through which the interior of the passage may be inspected, sai-d passage being lighted, in the neighborhood of the openings or sights 32, by electric bulbs 33 placed in suitable casings, as indicated in Fig. 1.

The oven illustrated is provided with three heating lues or sets ot heating flues. The upper flue 34 extends inthe body 10 above the roof of the baking passage 16, the middle flue is arranged between the bottom of said passage andthe roofs of the stationary hearths 11, and the lower flue 36 lies between the fioors of said hear-ths and `the roof of the return passage 17. The

hearths 11 therefore are heated both from above and from below, and the same thing is true of the baking passage 16. The lower passage 17` however, through which the return portionfof the conveyor passes, receives much less heat,since there is no heating flue below it. Owing to this arrangement the lower run of the conveyor on its travel through said lower passage will have an opportunity to C001 @if to a cer-tain extent, yet

since said lower passage is enclosed and receives a certain amount of heat by radiation, we avoid chilling of the return run of the conveyor. Asregards the particular, heating means employed in connection with the fines 34, 35, 36, these may be gas burners or any other well-known or approved devices suitable for this purpose, or gases heated elsewhere may be introduced into saidjilues; for this reason, we have deemed unnecessary to show any heating means proper.

rllhe combined oven embodying the principles explained above is very compact and economical, and enables each of its sections, both the stationary hearth section and, the traveling plate section, to be operated without interference with the other, the hearth section beingacccssible from4 one side ofthe body 10, and the other section from the. ends.

le claim as our invention:

1. Iny a oven, an endless conveyor extendiing longitudinally ot said oveny and having an` upper workin-g run and a lower return run, an upper baking chamber and a lower chamber-enclosingv the upper and, lower runs respectively ot said conveyor, a. first anda second' longitudinally extending Hue located closely adjacent t-o the upper and lower wal-ls respectively of: said upper baking chamber, a third heating flue located. closely adjacent to the upper wall oit said lower chamber and vertically spacedffromsaid second heating flue, and a baking chamber extending transversely of said. oven and' having its upper and lower walls closelyl adjacent to said second and thirdheating tlues respectively, whereby sai-d baking chambei-'s will be subjected to a more intenst heat than said lower chamber due to the additional heat supplied to,A said baking chambers by said second heating flue.

2. In an oven, an endless conveyor extending longitudinally thereof and having an upper working run and a lower ret-urn run, said upper run extending substantially horizontally through the central portion ot said oven and having its end portions inclined downwardly from said cent-ral portion, an upper baking chamber enclosimg. said upper run and extending in parallelism therewith, said ove-n being provided at each end of said chamber with an opening in communication with said chamberv for charging and discharging said conveyor, the upper ends of said openings being located in a plane lying below the plane of the lower wall ot the central portion ot said chamber to prevent escape of heat from said chamber, a lower chamber enclosing` said lower run of said conveyor, an upper heatingfine and a lower heating tine extending longitudinally ot said oven-in parallelism with and closely adjacent .to said upper baking chamber and said lower chamber respectively, a stationary baking chamber extending transversely of said oven and located in the space being said upper baking chamber and Said tween the raised central portion of said stationary chamber respectively. e upper baking chamber and said lower cham- In testimony whereof we have signed i0 ber and an intermediate flue located bethis specification.y

5 tween said upper baking chamber and said stationary baking chamber to co-operate ROBERT ELMER BAKER. with said upper and lower flues Jfor heat- LAURENCE SEYMOUR HARBER. 

